Baby Monitors

Guill

HI,

I am looking to get my hands on a baby monitor that has a long range. The range would want to be about 120m and fairly good signal.

Any suggestions?

babsybaby01

I'd suggest not to ask the mc canns where they got there ones!!

January

Please read the Charter for the forum. Humour like that is not appreciated on this particular forum.

Moonbeam

I don't think that you will get a wireless one with that range but 802.11g has a range up to 120m so maybe you could use a small netbook in their room and transmit to your own laptop or phone or similar.
It is a very big distance for a baby monitor though.

oakshade

We have an (expensive) Angel Care and a (cheap) Fisher Price and there is a world of difference. I totally recommend the angel care, it isnt cheap but you might pick one up on adverts or ebay second hand.

The sound quality is excellent (as well as the other benefits like movement sensor and room temp).

Good luck

Guill

By the way, i want this for livestock.

January

Aha... I reckon your best bet would be a webcam set up with sound and video??

Moonbeam

I was guessing it was for something similar:)

I would need to know your set up to be more helpful.
Is it for a big shed or individual stalls,do you want to hear or see them?
I have seen lovely set ups in some stables with video monitors and all but they were really expensive.

Orion

I'm trying to get my head around why you would even think of using a baby monitor to listen in to livestock. I'm sure the good folks on the Farming and Forestry forum would have much better solutions than that.

Moved to Farming & Forestry

The_Conductor

I agree with some of the previous posters- a laptop/wifi setup is very probably the only feasible way to go with this. There are no commercial baby monitors out there with the capabilities that you're describing. You can get a quadband router, specialist antenna with very high dBi gain and a good range- even melding 2.4 and 5.2Ghz bands (such as the DLink DIR855, for example) and use this to stream either a laptop feed or an IP camera feed elsewhere.

Note- you're suggesting that 100-120m is the range this needs to have- even light partition walls (never mind masonry) will be a big limiting factor however and are something you *need* to consider.

A better (more robust) solution would be to have a wired link- 120m is no problem whatsoever for CAT5....... (stated range for CAT5 is 150m, however with a properly shielded cable, you'll easily get up to 300m). For maximising transmission distance outside- you could of course consider an active hub (or indeed a series of them) to boost the signal to your required strength........

This really isn't a farming query- but I don't know of a good home for it.

If anyone has any systems in place that they'd like to describe for the OP- please post away!

Guill

Anything with an Internet link is not an option, the only access we have to interweb is via a dongle that runs at about dial up speed.

jaredGalen

What smccarrick above is talking about luckily doesn't need any connection to the interweb at all. The setup he suggests is basically a cable going from your camera to you computer.


CAMERA

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120m CAT5 CABLE

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>|active hub|

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>Your computer

The |active hub| would just be sitting beside your computer letting it talk to the camera.

emaherx

Web cam dose not need connection to internet.
It will work on a local network also. So your internet speed is not important. A small local network will run at much higher speed than any internet connection.

For wired connection you would need one wired ip camera, and a cross over cable to required length and nothing more. Wireless option will be a little more complex but not much.

If going for a wired option there are also cheap cameras that can be connected directly to back of a TV.

The_Conductor

My suggestion doesn't involve the internet- its a closed system, using computer hardware to get a video feed from location x (your parlour or where-ever) to location y (your kitchen- or where-ever). Its also fairly handy to setup, and cheaper than a custom package that some companies might try to sell you

emaherx

jaredGalen wrote: »

What smccarrick above is talking about luckily doesn't need any connection to the interweb at all. The setup he suggests is basically a cable going from your camera to you computer.


CAMERA

---

120m CAT5 CABLE

---

>|active hub|

---

>Your computer

The |active hub| would just be sitting beside your computer letting it talk to the camera.

Snap!:D

Hub, may not even be required if cross over cable is used. But they are not very expensive. Network switch would be more common these days and equally inexpensive. Hub/ network switch would alow you to expand your network easily with extra PC's, Printers, cameras etc.

49801

if you only want sound have you considered a fm transmiter?
just tune in your radio. should be inexpensive

camera's with sound are very good though!!!
have wireless cams here. pain in the behind. will be hardwiring it before next winter!!!

jaredGalen

emaherx wrote: »

Snap!:D
Hub, may not even be required if cross over cable is used. But they are not very expensive.

Great minds and all that

My suggestion would be to do what smccarrick is talking about.
Setup your camera, run the cable to youre house and plug it into a wireless router (see the link below). Then you can sit anywhere in the house with a laptop etc and see your camera feed and you can add cameras easily enough too. All without touching the internet, no need for broadband or any of that.

I wouldn't splash loads of money on the latest router equipment. The one below is fine, could probably get cheaper too.

Spend the money on the camera.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linksys-WRT54GL-Wireless-G-Broadband-Router/dp/B000ETX928/

My two cents anyway.